Tirana/Skopje, 12 November 2026, dtt-net.com – Of five countries of the Western Balkans region which are members of the United Nations, four have already submitted their commitments to reducing net greenhouse gas emissions by 2035. Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Serbia have submitted their targets to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) body, while Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) has not yet, and Kosovo too for not being member of the world body.
In its filing of September 2026 Albania’s government committed to keep net greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions below 9,195kilotonnes of CO₂ equivalent (ktCO₂eq) by the year 2035 equivalent to limit the increase of emissions by 17.4% compared to base year (1990).
Montenegro did commit in its filing of February 2025 to reducing of GHG emissions by at least 55% and 60% compared to 1990 by 2030 and 2035 respectively.
For 2035, North Macedonia committed economy-wide net greenhouse-gas reduction target of at least 80 per cent below the revised 1990 level and a conditional level of up to 82 per cent, subject to substantially increased international financial, technological and capacity-building support.
“Both are intermediate milestones on the pathway to climate neutrality by 2050,” the government in Skopje said in its filing to the UNFCCC of early November 2026.
Serbia’s government has submitted commitment in September 2026 for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to 40.1% by 2035 compared to the level of greenhouse gas emissions in 1990.
The European Union, where all six countries of the region aim to members of, has in November 2025 submitted its commitments for binding EU net emissions reductions target for 2040 of 90%.
